(February 16, 2013 at 2:23 am)Esquilax Wrote:(February 15, 2013 at 5:57 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: Such a discovery wouldn't tell us much about the nature of the Creator. It would mean theists worldview is correct while atheists worldview is incorrect. It would be a huge blow to atheists but I agree the debates would continue.
Not really. The discovery of a disinterested god would mean that each individual theist is just as wrong as any atheist... or at least, any antitheist. Because, at least in my agnostic atheism, the position has never been that there's no god, just that there's no respectable evidence for one yet. The thing about finding scientific evidence for god would be that... well, that would be evidence. It'd literally be exactly what was needed to change our minds.
You're equating theism with religion. Theism is the non-religious philosophilcal belief we owe our existence to a Creator commonly referred to as God. So the theistic part of the belief would be correct. As to whether there is respectable evidence in favor of that belief is in the eye of the beholder. Of the evidence available I believe it tips in favor of theism.
Since the atheist worldview has only ever come down to "believe in things that are factual," we'd hardly be incorrect so long as we began to believe when god becomes something factual.
You may be the one exception but in my travels I have found atheists beileve in many things with a modicum of evidence to supoort it as long as it comports with their worldview.
This disinterested god that, even when proven, doesn't yet belong to any religious denomination.
Neither does theism. There is no church of theism that I am aware of.
